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Roderick, also known as Ruderic, was a priest in Cabra, Spain during the persecution of Christians by the Moors.
St. Theophanes was born in Samothrace, Greece around the year 759. He was orphaned while still a young child, but was left a large inheritance.
St. Aurea was born around the year 1042 in the village of Villavelayo, Spain.
March 10 is the liturgical memorial of Saint John Ogilvie, a 16th- and 17th-century Scotsman who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, served as a Jesuit priest, and died as a martyr at the hands of state officials.
St. Frances was born into a noble Roman family in the year 1384. From an early age, Frances felt drawn to the religious life, but at the age of thirteen her parents forced her into marriage.
The Catholic Church celebrates the extraordinary life of St. John of God on March 8. The saint lived through decades of sin and suffering before a profound conversion that led him to embrace poverty, humility and charity.
As the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity on March 7, here are some interesting things to know about these early martyrs.
Saints Perpetua and Felicity were martyrs who died for the faith around the year 203.
St. Colette was the founder of the Colettine Poor Clares (Clarisses)
Self-denial is never an end in itself but is only a help toward greater charity—as the life of Saint John Joseph shows.
On March 4, the Catholic Church honors Saint Casimir Jagiellon, a prince whose life of service to God has made him a patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, and young people.
On March 3, the universal Church celebrates the feast of St. Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress who abandoned her family’s fortune to found an order of sisters dedicated to serving the impoverished African American and American Indian populations of the United States.
St. Agnes was born in Prague in the year 1200, and probably died in the year 1281. She was the daughter of Ottocar, King of Bohemia and Constance of Hungary, who was a relative of St. Elizabeth.
Among Welsh Catholics, as well as those in England, March 1 is the liturgical celebration of Saint David of Wales.
St. Angelo d’Acri (1669–1739) heard a divine voice give him advice on preaching and went on to become known for many spiritual gifts.
Villana de’Botti was a wife and a Third Order Dominican. She was born in Florence in 1332.
Mother Maria Caridad Brader was born into a pious family in Kaltburn, Switzerland, in 1860.
St. Alexander succeeded St. Achillas as bishop of Alexandria in 313.
Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani was born into a noble family in Naples, Italy in 1806. Her father was an alcoholic and was exiled after being involved in a revolt.
Thomas was born to a noble family in 1831 in Pagani, Italy. He was the seventh of eight children.